Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up ...

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

A new study suggests that exposure to air pollution may reduce or even cancel out many of the health benefits of regular ...

Air pollution begins harming babies as early as the first trimester, disrupting foetal growth, immunity and lung development.

Calderón-Garcidueñas, today head of the Environmental Neuroprevention Laboratory at the University of Montana, points out that the damaged brains she documented through neuroimaging in young dogs and ...

Atmospheric scientist Laura Wilcox talks to The Conversation Weekly about the measures China took to improve its air pollution – and the unintended consequences for the climate.

Doctors, environmental groups and residents are trying to figure out if there is a causal connection between pollutants from the steel industry and rates of cancer in Gary, Indiana. Pollutants you can ...

On Monday night, the Burnsville City Council approved a conditional use permit allowing the project known as “Big Hits at the Gateway” to move forward. During a Tuesday meeting, several residents ...

The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi responded to submissions by senior advocate Aparajita Singh ...